A wave of anti-BDS legislation is sweeping the country. Dozens of bills aimed at suppressing or punishing BDS activism have been introduced in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures – from Arizona to Massachusetts – in the past year. (See here for information on previous anti-BDS legislative initiatives.)
Read MoreThe law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadely & McCloy reportedly pulled $250,000 from Harvard Law after a panel discussion called "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack.” The October 20 lunchtime lecture featured Palestine Legal staff attorney Radhika Sainath, Omar Shakir, a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and Northeastern undergraduate Kendall Bousquet and was sponsored by the law school’s Justice for Palestine student group.
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2016 - UCLA’s Graduate Students Association (GSA) issued an apology for engaging in viewpoint discrimination against supporters of Palestinian rights, and adopted a constitutional amendment to clarify policies protecting free speech.
Read MoreNew York lawmakers, seemingly baffled by the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign for Palestinian freedom, are despairing for the good old days of McCarthyism, when speech was suppressed and activists’ livelihoods endangered with the simple creation of a blacklist.
Read MoreIn the wake of the publication of leaked emails from the listserv of Jewish fraternity Alph Epsilon Pi (AEPi) at the University of Chicago, revealing consistently racist, Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian and misogynistic comments from individual members, the University of Chicago student government passed a resolution yesterday, February 8, calling the university out for failing to respond appropriately to a number of incidents on campus. The resolution (see below), in addition to the leaked information, also enumerates other incidents involving racist, Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian attacks on individual students, student groups, and racial and ethnic groups as a whole.
Read MoreIn December 2014, UAW 2865, the labor union representing over 14,000 graduate student workers at the University of California (UC), voted by an overwhelming majority to demand that their union and their employer, the UC, divest from companies complicit in human rights violations against Palestinians.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Palestine Legal sent a letter to Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov in response to recent accusations of anti-Semitism against the student group Students for a Free Palestine (SFP) at the Ohio liberal arts college.
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